Trend Micro Incorporated, 225 East John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 1500, Irving, TX 75062, USA ("Trend Micro" or "we") provides this Privacy Notice to help you understand the types of information that you provide to Trend Micro, what we do with that information and how we protect that information when you use Trend Micro’s products and services.

With Trend Micro products and services, you can increase the protection for your digital data from hackers, spammers, spyware, malware and other online threats. Because of the fast and constant evolving nature of online threats and malware, it is necessary to configure our products and services to constantly provide data and information from your devices to enable us to stay ahead of malicious activities and protect your devices and data.

What information do you provide?

Product license data

When you install and activate our products, you provide information such as:

name

phone number

email address

device ID

operating system

license key

We use this information to ensure that your license to our solutions is valid and to contact you regarding renewals, technical issues and new product information.

Smart Feedback data

You provide the following types of information and data if you enable certain features such as Smart Feedback, a key feature of our Smart Protection Network (SPN). Providing these types of information and data enables you to participate, share and leverage Trend Micro’s global database of threat related intelligence to rapidly identify and defend against potential threats within your unique network environment, as described in more detail below.

Faster responses to threats: SPN delivers our latest protection to you in real time. Compared to traditional signature updates, this approach dramatically reduces your window of vulnerability from (potentially) days to mere minutes.

Strong defense against targeted attacks: Attackers have moved away from launching large scale attacks to focus on more specific and “personal” targets. Smart Feedback allows us to identify new sources and methods of attack.

Hidden threats revealed: Using data collected from around the globe, Trend Micro uses big data analytics to identify critical relationships during an attack and shed light on well-hidden threats. This data also helps Trend Micro find zero-day vulnerabilities to deliver updated protection much more rapidly.

Trend Micro designs SPN to limit the collection of personal information as much as reasonably possible, by collecting data that cannot identify an individual where this is sufficient, stripping out specific personal information and keeping only redacted behavior profiles. Unavoidably, your computer will also send some information to SPN that can be connected to you, e.g. location information for mobile devices, or file names bearing identifiable details. But, even if and where information can theoretically be connected to an individual person, we do not normally try to make such connection for data reported by you and other users to SPN.

We do not share data that you provide to us, except with service providers that help us perform and improve services for you; with your consent; as necessary to perform our contractual obligations to you; in order to protect your, our and others' rights and interests; in connection with a sale or reorganization of our business, if and to the extent permissible by law and as required to cooperate with any legal process and any law enforcement or other government inquiry. This means that we may provide information that we collect from you if that information is relevant to a court subpoena or to a law enforcement or other government investigation, provided this is permissible under applicable data protection law.

If you have any questions, requests, comments or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please email us at legal_notice@trendmicro.com or by sending a letter to Trend Micro Privacy Program, Trend Micro Incorporated, c/o Legal Department, 225 East John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 1500, Irving, TX 75062, USA.